The Elsass Family: Rough Week.

The week started off just like any other week. Ahh, we all love Mondays. Really, I hate Mondays. I have a bazillion things I have to load in the car and take into daycare on Mondays. And well, I don't get a long enough weekend to spend with my family, so I am already down about that. It's the start of another long work work. And this week, I would spend the first night away from my baby girl since she was born. It's almost the same timing as the first time I spent the night away from Jackson. This time, I was lot more prepared and I didn't feel overwhelmed about it all. I was planning on getting some sleep while I was gone. (More on that later.)

So Monday was all fine until I left work. I am heading home at my normal time to pick the kids up and I am sitting at the red light just three minutes from my office. The light turns green, we all go. I look down to get the heat to come out the top rather than just the feet. Everyone stops. I don't. AWESOME. I hit the lady in front of me. Not very hard since we weren't really going that fast, but none the less, I hit her. I get out of my car to see if she is okay. When I approach her car, she is already calling the police. No "hey let's handle this on our own." So, now I am little pissed, but more concerned because Josh is out of town and I have to get the kids. I call the daycare and tell them that I am running late. I call Josh. Then we wait for the police. They were just right around the corner, so it didn't take long. I was out there about 20 minutes after it happened. No one got hurt, the damage isn't TOO bad, although I will need a new front bumper.

I get my kids and we got home. All is fine.

Tuesday, we wake up to yet ANOTHER snow storm. Ugh. Josh calls while I am in the shower. I am sure that he ran his car off the road. Not to worry, we've already met our deductible this year! :) Well, good news... he didn't run his car off the road, but he did get stuck twice, so he decided he was coming back home. So I decided I was going to wait until just before my lunch meeting to head out. That will give them enough time to clear the roads. (And they did, so I was glad I waited). While we were at home, Jackson says to me "I'm going play a quiet game, mommy, so you can work!" God love him. Audrey slept for a little while and then Josh entertained her while I worked some more. Josh left about 30 minutes before we did and as he is leaving, Jackson is standing at the garage door.

"Bye daddy. Have a good day, daddy. I love you, daddy! Be careful out there daddy!"

He is so cute.

I managed to get everything ready for my out of town trip. The kids (and Joshua) are going to be fine. I dropped them off Thursday morning and headed for Piqua. I made it with no problems. Worked all day, entertained with the client Thursday night and then headed back to the hotel. I get everything unpacked and ready for the next day and I start "feeding the baby" before I got to bed and what do I hear? Crying children and their parents yelling at them in the room next to me. You have GOT to be kidding me. If I weren't already so tired, completely unpacked and hooked up to a pump, I would have asked for a new room. Fortunately I was so tired, that they didn't keep me from falling asleep. Unfortunately, I didn't do a great job of staying asleep throughout the night. Then I woke up at 5am really needing to feed my baby. I tried to ignore it and go back to sleep, but I was unsuccessful at that and just decided to get up. So much for getting an extra hour or two of sleep while I was gone.

No worries though because Audrey then decided to sleep until 5:30 Saturday morning, 6am Sunday morning and 6:40am this morning. Hopefully we can keep this going!

Yesterday, I got a couple of pictures of the kiddos just hanging out. Jackson wanted to hold Audrey at 6am this morning. I told him no that we were all going to go back to bed for a little while. It wasn't time to get up.